Laurabelle's Blog

Yesterday evening Jeff called me from work to say that he had missed his train home. He had forgotten his cell phone at home, so he'd had to bike back to work in order to call me. My phone cut out during our conversation, complaining of a low battery, so I called him back on [...]

A few months ago I switched my schedule from Monday-Friday to Tuesday-Saturday. One of the perks of this schedule is that I get to pick when to take my holidays, since most of them fall on Monday and I don't work Mondays. So I'm taking one of my holidays this Tuesday, and boy, I'm looking [...]

Last weekend Jeff and I invested in a Yakima roof rack to carry skis to Tahoe, whence we are going next weekend for Christmas. Yesterday we attempted to install it on top of the car. This was slightly more interesting than it should have been. Reading through the directions, I discovered that crucial information was [...]

I have started brailling again. I stopped because I was moving to California, and then I didn’t start again because I was tired from my new job or because I was planning my wedding. A week before the latter event, the WTBBL called and said I should either do some work for them or give [...]

When I woke up this morning my engagement ring was not on my hand, and my wedding ring was on the wrong finger. My middle finger, to be exact, where it fits only with great force. I have no idea how it got there, though I must have put it there myself. It was rather [...]

I've been slowly working my way through name-change stuff at work. First I had to wait for the marriage certificate to arrive, then there were the Social Security thing and the driver's license thing (which are a story in and of themselves), and then I had to start changing things at work. The new Social [...]

Jeff and I went to a Giants baseball game on Thursday night (vs. the San Diego Padres) and witnessed Barry Bonds’ home run #722. (We declined the free I was there pin.) It was a pretty good game, actually. We went with the knitting gang from work (plus a few non-knitting friends and husbands) and [...]

This afternoon in downtown Oakland, I approached a gray-haired man selling Street Spirit newspapers. He asked me how I was doing. I smiled at him and said truthfully, I'm having a good day. How about you? He replied in a soft sweet voice, Better now.

As of last Saturday at approximately 3:15 pm CDT, I am now Mrs. Jeffrey A. Frasca. The wedding was quite nice and, I think, much as I had planned it. The only thing that didn't conform to my expectations was the flowers on the cake, which was simply because we (who knew how the flowers [...]

The very evening that Jeff brought home the DVD player, I signed us up for Netflix. At first I signed us up for the one-at-a-time plan because I thought, oh, we don't watch that many movies. But of course, now that we have a DVD player and easy access to movies with Netflix, it's much [...]